Obama is to Jesus as Britney Spears is to Virgin

I'm really getting tired of people comparing Obama to Jesus and saying things like "The Messiah has lost his halo". It's ironic, since Bush was the biggest theocrat west of the Saudi oil fields. It's also unoriginal.

Charismatic people have always drawn comparisons to Christ--just look at the Beatles. They were known not only for their music but for the witty answers they gave to journalists; when one journalist asked whether it was true that the song "Drive My Car" was about a prostitute and "Norwegian Wood" was about a lesbian, Paul answered, "We were just trying to write about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all."

The Beatles were adored all over the world (does that ring any bells?) and fans brought people in wheelchairs--people with serious disabilities--so that the Beatles could touch and cure them.

But they weren't messiahs or faith healers. They were men with star power.

I guess that's what the whole issue boils down to. The other side is jealous of Obama's star power, and now that Obama's numbers are sinking, they're trotting out the Christ comparisons so they can gloat. But in late 1966, after the Beatles stopped touring, the press began to speculate that the Beatles had dried up.

And in 1967, the released Sergeant Pepper.

I wish the pundits and members of the media who insist on using terms like "anointed", "chosen one", "messiah", "halo" and "savior" would a) stop it, and b) admit that they are the ones who used and continue to use those words to describe Obama--no one in the Obama camp has ever used them. So their view of Obama as a self proclaimed instrument of God is really a projection of their own envy--Obama is charismatic and bright and they don't have anyone on their side who has that kind of stage presence. They did, however, have their own self proclaimed instrument of God, but no one on the opposite side ever made snide comments about Bush losing his halo.